Year: 2019
Substitute Teachers Decry NFL Quarterbacks’ “Crib Sheets”
SEDVILLE, Mo. The NFL post-season begins in earnest this weekend, but one team of tough, battle-tested veterans is already lining up to scrimmage over a high-stakes issue; the use of Velcro-fastened “crib sheets” by the league’s quarterbacks. […]
For One Writing Coach, “Wranting” Doesn’t Cut It
SOMERVILLE, Mass. Maggie Turbek is a writing coach who learned the hard way the perils of caring too much. “I turned in a magazine article a day late because I wasted a whole Sunday on a nuclear […]
The Daddoni Movement
Maybe you’ve heard of the Italian word “Mammoni,” which means “Mamma’s boy” in Italy. It refers to men in their twenties and thirties who live at home with their parents and are lavishly tended to […]
“Balancing the Books” With the World’s Oldest Profession
Accountancy has a good claim to being the world’s oldest profession. Edward Chancellor, Wall Street Journal review of “Double Entry” by Jane Gleeson-White We were hanging around, me and my buddies Ug and Nutz, […]
My Resolutions For YOU in 2019
Every year I make New Year’s resolutions and every year I break them. So this year, I’m trying something different – resolutions for other people. Hey world – here are the changes I’d like to […]